Crystal Pale Ale
Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Rotating|
Score
6.54
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This crisp pale ale is named after U.S. Crystal hops, which give the beer its distinctive American hop character. The classic aroma and citrusy, floral flavor that the Crystalhops provide are balanced by a subtle earthy note from U.K. hops. Cheers
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6.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle in pint glass. Aroma is bready malt and yeasty dough with whiff of resinous hops. Appearance is golden brown with negligible head with poor retention and minimal lacing. Taste is mix of bitter hops with sweet malt and a dry corn chip finish. Palate is medium bodied with thick texture and too-lively carbonation. Overall, more here than I thought there would be.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Sep 2015
at 20:46
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle shared in the Holiday Inn Express - Geneva, NY. Pours clear gold with a foamy white head. The aroma has some floral hops, pine needles, bready pale malts. Medium sweet flavor with more bready pale malts, some ripe orange, pine. Light bodied with fine to average carbonation. Lightly citric n the finish, slight grains, citrus fruits pale bread. OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 May 2015
at 23:32
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
12 oz bottle from the spring variety pack. Don’t know how I missed this one, I thought I had rated it. Aroma is a little muted--faintly chalky, floral. Pours clear burnt orange with a medium long-sustaining bone white head. Taste is dry, lightly bitter with citrus and earthy flavors. No flaws but pretty boring.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Apr 2015
at 21:23
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Fair pale ale. Nice bright nose, lime rind citrus, floral. Flavor is dy, crackery, and the hops move to herbal/floral. I like crystal hops only a little better than cascade, and I don’t like cascade very much. Nice golden color.
Tried
on 02 Apr 2015
at 16:39
6/10
Tried
on 11 Mar 2015
at 21:11
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Orange caramel malt and grapefruit peel/pine aroma. Golden yellow with small head. Sweet orange caramel malt and moderately bitter pine/ grapefruit peel flavor. Nice balance. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Feb 2015
at 17:07
7.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 7
Bottle: Clear, amber-copper with a creamy, off-white head. Grapefruit, lemon, grassy scent. Taste is sweet, then slightly grassy bitter, caramel malt, orange. Clean and solid... Nice and sessionable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jan 2015
at 18:00
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12oz bottle. Tight/foamy offwhite head with trailing lace-gold. A-soft citrus/pine/grassy, some lt malt. T-lemon/orange zest hops with a slight pine note, some lt malt-bready. Flavor and bitter come to a near complete finish fairly quickly.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jan 2015
at 12:21
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
light Amber color. Light malty character with modest hops character. Some crystal malt finish. Decent, but pretty mainstream
Tried
on 25 Jan 2015
at 01:34
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Pours clear amber into a Sam glass. Soapy off-white head with good retention recedes leaving spider lacing. Sweet caramel and resin aromas. Dry with stale earth and sour roots front to back and through the nasty finish.
Tried
on 18 Jan 2015
at 16:12